Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your grandfather is the short, grizzled man with a hare-lip, two glass eyes, and a hook on his right arm, that I am thinking of, you are in for a bad time, as whenever he meets me he mistakes me for an old Model The once had, and tries to turn my motor over with my left leg. Fortunately for you he sees a paper rarely...
...oldest, cast in 1674 by Pieter Hemony of Amsterdam, ablest bell founder of his time. The youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn...
Mouth habits leave permanent and identifiable marks on the teeth, observed Dr. Ryan. He listed some-Nervous habits: toothpick biting, fingernail biting, grinding teeth, clenching the jaws in sleep, thrusting the tongue against the teeth, lip biting, biting on the ear pieces of eyeglasses, biting paperclips, pencils, fountain pens; Occupational habits: thread-biting in sewing, pin-&-needle habit (dressmakers), holding nails in teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones...
...poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said later, that unless he could land a lucky punch, the end of his career as champion was at hand...
...league outfielder. When a lineman with a hangover dropped off a tower and got killed, Slim stopped being a grunt. He was so proud of his lineman's belt he hated to take it off at night. Because Red wouldn't stand for any big lip from the man sent to investigate the accident, he and Slim headed Red's old car for Chicago...